六万

六萬

liùwàn

number #23,421

Meanings

1 sixty thousand
2 60,000

Characters

ten thousand; 10,000

Examples

这座城市有六万名学生。

Zhè zuò chéngshì yǒu liùwàn míng xuésheng.

This city has sixty thousand students.

那辆车卖了六万块钱。

Nà liàng chē mài le liùwàn kuài qián.

That car sold for sixty thousand yuan.

Tips

usage

Chinese numbers use 万 (10,000) as a base unit, so 六万 = 6 × 10,000 = 60,000. English speakers often need to convert: think of 万 as 'ten-thousand' and multiply. 六万 is '6 ten-thousands' = sixty thousand.

Stroke Order

六 liù

万 wàn